About Speedle


Speedle is an open source, fine-grained access control engine built to address authorization requirements in cloud-native applications. Speedle offers policy-driven access control that provides the ability to externalize authorization decisions to a policy engine that that can evaluate RBAC/ABAC policies for a given logged-in user, or on a process acting on behalf of a user. Speedle includes the SPDL policy definition language.

The open source version of Speedle consists of:

  • SPDL policy definition language
  • Policy Management Service
  • Authorization Decision Service
  • Command line tool (spctl)

Speedle is licensed under Universal Permissive License v1.0. Users are free to integrate Speedle into their own systems.